1964

It may be the middle of a beautiful fall day when you're reading this column, but I am now in the midst of a storm in the middle of a sweltering day in August when I'm typing away to meet this deadline. You may remember the one thing that you didn't want to be doing last August, and that was to be available to provide information to your distraught class secretary so he could write his column. If it weren't for press releases and the telephone, and a vague memory of discussions I had when I was more tlian slightly under the weather and influence at reunion, this column would be non-existent. Armed with my weapons, here goes. NEWS FLASH. JayH. Meltzer was promoted to senior vice president and general counsel and secretary of TJX Companies, Inc., which is one of the leading off-price retailers nationally, running such store chains as Hit or Miss and Chadwick's of Boston. This caps Jay's long successful career since starting with Zayre Corp. which followed a stint with a Wall Street law firm. Jay has also served as president of the New England Corporate Counsel Association. I understand that Jay is personally responsible for creating enough catalogs for our mail boxes so that we will never receive any first-class mail and next intends to make sure that we receive no fax transmissions. My follow-up call to Jay revealed that further congratulations are in order for Jay. Somehow he has been able to sustain his marriage to his beautiful and talented wife, Bonnie, whom I met at Dartmouth long ago. She is director of development for an organization known as Facing History and Ourselves (which studies the Holocaust and genocide) following a career at Wheaton College. Jay lives in Newton outside of Boston with his three children. Except for his daughter Wendy, who has had the poor judgment of going to Harvard, his other two children, Elizabeth and John, seem to be on the right track. Jay spends summers near Hanover and sounds like a man lucky to have a close family and happy life perspective.

NEWS FLASH. Lew Eisenbere, whose enormously successful career with Goldman, Sachs we all have followed closely, was recently awarded the Herbert H. Lehman Human Relations Award by the American Jewish Committee. This annual award, presented at the Grand Hyatt in New York before 600 guests, recognizes an individual for outstanding contribution to improving human relations and for charitable efforts. Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacker gave the award. Lew's non-business charitable accomplishments are veiy impressive; however, I expected the news flash to be his receipt of a dance contest endurance prize after watching him at reunion. My former roomy, Jim Goodman, in the phone call in which he turned me down for reunion, advised me that he is a happily married man, living in Phoenix, Ariz., enjoying raising his children. Jim is working for a national clothing firm as a sales representative in the Southeast and has promised in green blood to give me more low-down in person on his company trip to New York this fall. BillCraig avoided writing to the reunion book editor, but not from talking to me at reunion. Bill is a corporate partner with the law firm of Wiggin and Dana in New Haven, Conn., following his stint at the law school with the same address. Bill has kept his contacts with Dartmouth through his daughter Lindsey '92, and his vacation home in Quechee. During the next two weeks your class secretary will be moving homes, sending his wife to her internship at NYU and Bronx Hospital, sending his son to Italy and his youngest daughter to Dartmouth, and arranging surgery for his bum tennis and ski knee and having a nervous breakdown. If he survives it all he will have time to read all of your news and make the next deadline. See you in Hanover to see the football team. Till then.

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